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RAINFALL NOT ENOUGH FOR THIRSTY REGION.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-SEP-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: RAINFALL NOT ENOUGH FOR THIRSTY REGION.(Weather)(The Northwest's rain year was average, but rivers remained below average)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

A year of mostly normal rainfall wasn't enough to top off Northwest reservoirs and rivers, which posted below-normal flows for the fifth year in a row for the water year that ends today.

Most of the river basins in the Columbia-Snake river system received average to above-average rainfall for the October-to-September period, according to figures compiled by the Bonneville Power Administration and National Weather Service. But river flows remained stubbornly below normal, on the order of 75 percent to 85 percent of what they have averaged in the past 30 years.

Like most other parts of the region, the Willamette Valley had close to a normal year....

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